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199688.2 in reply to 199688.1
Date: 10/29/2011 11:52:26 PM
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You must be a Yankee fan :P

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199688.3 in reply to 199688.1
Date: 10/30/2011 1:34:26 AM
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Who cares its baseball.

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199688.4 in reply to 199688.3
Date: 10/30/2011 2:51:57 AM
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Honestly, I'm not sure if he did use steroids or not. Since the are testing, I'm sure he not using them right now...although I don't think they've banned HGH and some of those other borderline drugs.

The thing I don't get is, why everybody is blasting some of the ball players who we all suspect use steroids (although it hasn't necessarily been proven), yet Lance Armstrong still somehow gets a free pass.



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199688.5 in reply to 199688.4
Date: 10/30/2011 6:57:40 AM
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because a) cancer b) USA USA USA

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199688.6 in reply to 199688.4
Date: 11/3/2011 12:52:12 PM
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No free pass for Armstrong here. A guy who cheats to win isnt doing USA any favors. Thats not even the biggest D-Bag move from Armstrong either.

Pujols is awesome, great hitter and all. I have a hard time thinking of him as the best player in baseball, as I hear on ESPN often and elsewhere as well. The guy is a big fat first baseman. To me the best player is someone who hits, fields, runs, does it all. Winning a gold glove at 1st isnt the same as winning it at 3rd, ss or CF. If you were a GM and all of the players were dumped into a draft pool, would you really take Pujols 1st? Lots of hard hitting 1st baseman out there.

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199688.7 in reply to 199688.6
Date: 11/3/2011 4:50:46 PM
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The guy is a big fat first baseman. To me the best player is someone who hits, fields, runs, does it all. Winning a gold glove at 1st isnt the same as winning it at 3rd, ss or CF.


In his younger years, Ruth was a great athlete -- even pitched. But certainly throughout most of his career he was on the heavy side. So no love of the Babe from you either?



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199688.8 in reply to 199688.7
Date: 11/3/2011 7:32:15 PM
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Im one of those-'Babe was awesome, probably saved the game, but his game wouldnt have hed up in today's game' kind of guy. Think Adam Dunn only........not that healthy.

John Goodman is awesome as the Babe in that movie. Great American Character.

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199688.9 in reply to 199688.8
Date: 11/4/2011 3:49:45 PM
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Its very hard to compare players from different eras. Ruth was clearly the best player of his time and he changed baseball and ended the dead ball era and style of play.

If you put Babe Ruth in a time machine and transported him to today, I agree, he might not do particularly well against the modern athlete.

But if he was a 25 year old growing up with all the advantages of the modern time period, would he be competitive? A star? An MVP? Really hard to say...



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199688.10 in reply to 199688.9
Date: 11/4/2011 4:16:16 PM
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Agreed. However in the case of Ruth, who was an extremely compulsive person who didnt listen to anyone or do what he was told unless he wanted to, the whole 'if he had grown up now' doesnt seem to apply. I am sure that many great atheletes from then could have been able to do it now with modern training etc. In Ruth's case though, I think he had his best shot then and wouldnt have made it now, not with his antics and ...........freewill.

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199688.11 in reply to 199688.4
Date: 11/5/2011 10:46:57 AM
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btw, MLB has banned HGH but they don't run blood tests for it due to objections from the players union (for other reasons)

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199688.12 in reply to 199688.11
Date: 11/5/2011 2:00:44 PM
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Why would the players union object I wonder? Big bucks always trumps right and wrong.

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